H2020 calls for 2020 -presentation and discussion on collaboration

H2020 calls:

- Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

- Innovation Action (IA)

- Co-ordination and Support Action (CSA)

Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

EU funding rate – 100%

Activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this purpose they may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment. Projects may contain closely connected but limited demonstration or pilot activities aiming to show technical feasibility in a near to operational environment.

Who: Consortia of partners from different countries, industry and academia.

H2020 calls:

- Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

- Innovation Action (IA)

- Co-ordination and Support Action (CSA)

Innovation Action (IA)

EU funding rate – 70% (except non-profit, which are still funded 100%)

Activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. For this purpose they may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication.

Who: Consortia of partners from different countries, industry and academia.

H2020 calls:

- Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

- Innovation Action (IA)

- Co-ordination and Support Action (CSA)

Co-ordination and Support Action (CSA)

EU funding rate – 100%

Accompanying measures such as standardisation, dissemination, awareness-raising and communication, networking, coordination or support services, policy dialogues and mutual learning exercises and studies.

Who: Single entities or consortia of partners from different countries, industry and academia.

H2020 – ICT

ICT-46-2020: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support

Robotics Core Technology (RIA); Robotics for agri-food, and agile production (IA); Robotics (CSA)

Budget – EUR 6-7 million (RIA), 6-7 million (IA), 3 million (CSA)

Deadline – 17 June 2020

H2020 – ICT

ICT-47-2020: Research and Innovation boosting promising robotics applications

Innovative approaches to hard research problems in relation to applications of robotics in promising new areas are particularly encouraged. Proposals are expected to enable substantially improved solutions to challenging technical issues, with a view of take-up in applications with high socio-economic impact and low environmental footprint, where appropriate. Driven by application needs, the work can start from research at low TRL, but proposals are expected to validate their results in sufficiently realistic scenarios in order to demonstrate the potential for take-up in the selected application(s).

Budget – EUR 2-3 million (RIA)

Deadline – 17 June 2020

H2020 –RESponsibleIsland - Prize for a renewable geographic energy island

H2020-Prize-SC3-2019 : RESponsible Island - Prize for a renewable geographic energy island

The prize intends to highlight the potential of renewables for decentralized energy grids by addressing energy needs for electricity, heating, cooling and transport. The title is inspired by RES (short for Renewables) and "responsible" to highlight the citizen in the centre of the energy system. Within this context, the prize recognizes realised achievements in renewables on geographic energy islands.

Geographic energy islands are ideal test labs for the deployment of innovative energy technologies. The prize will reward integrated local RES production in a decentralized electricity grid and the achievements in decarbonizing heating, cooling and transport. In this context, renewable energy consumed on the island is also linked to the renewable energy produced on the island, supporting its local value chains and self-engaging the local society as a RESponsible prosumer.

Budget – EUR 0.5 million for the 1st place, EUR 0.25 million for the 2nd

place, EUR 0.1 million for the 3rd place

Deadline – 29 September 2020

H2020 –Societal Challenges pillar

BBI-2020-SO1-F3 : Produce food ingredients with high nutritional value from aquatic sources

The specific challenge is to sustainably scale up the conversion of new and sustainable aquatic and marine sources for human food and contribute to food and nutrition security.

Budget – EUR 16 million (Innovation action - flagship action)

Deadline – 03 September 2020 (single stage)

European Green DealCall opens September 2020, closes Jan 2021

The European Green Deal will support:

pilot applications, demonstration projects and innovative products

innovation for better governance of the green and digital transition

social and value chain innovation Call area 1: Increasing climate ambition: cross-sectoral challenges

Call area 2: Clean, affordable and secure energy

Call area 3: Industry for a clean and circular economy

Call area 4: Energy and resource-efficient buildings

Call area 5: Sustainable and smart mobility

Call area 6: Farm to Fork

Call area 7: Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services

Call area 8: Zero-pollution, toxic-free environment

Call area 9: Strengthening our knowledge in support of the European Green Deal

Call area 10: Empowering citizens for transition towards a climate neutral, sustainable Europe

Call area 11: Accelerating the clean energy transition and access in partnership with Africa

H2020 – EIC Pathfinder Pilot- Pathfinder Open- Pathfinder Proactive

The EIC Pathfinder Pilot – comprises FET-Open and FET-Proactive to promote collaborative, inter-disciplinary research and innovation on science-inspired and radically new future technologies.

FET-Open - CSAs to create the best conditions for responsible collaborative research on FET

FET-Open – FET Innovation Launchpad grants fund further innovation related work.

a radical vision

a breakthrough technological target

an ambitious interdisciplinary research

H2020 – EIC Pathfinder Pilot- Pathfinder Open- Pathfinder Proactive

The EIC Pathfinder Pilot –comprises FET-Open and FET-Proactive to promote collaborative, inter-disciplinary research and innovation on science-inspired and radically new future technologies.

FET-Proactive – a set of complementary and collaborating projects building new multidisciplinary research communities and enhancing Europe’s innovation potential.

Emerging paradigms and communities

EIC Transition to innovation activities

Environmental Intelligence

H2020 – EIC Accelerator Pilot

EIC Accelerator Pilot -designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with radically new ideas underpinned by a business plan for rolling out marketable innovation solutions and with ambitions to scale up. It targets for-profit SMEs only, including young companies and start-ups, from any sector - there are no set topics.

Grants will finance activities from TRL 6-8.

€0.5 and €2.5 million in the form of grants

Projects should normally take 12 to 24 months

Also offers blended financevia an optional investment in equity (up to €15 million) in addition to the grant, to single for-profit SMEs.

07 October 2020 - grant only or blended finance

H2020 – Fast Track to Innovation

FTI accelerates the market uptake of ground-breaking innovations by providing funding in an open, accessible scheme that nurtures ideas from consortia of innovators of all types and sizes from across Europe.

Proposals must relate to any field of H2020 under the specific objective "Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies" and/or to any of the specific objectives under the priority "Societal challenge".

Fast Track to Innovation

Participation by industry —defined as private-for-profit organisations — is mandatory; industry is best-placed to ensure the due commercial exploitation of the innovation developed; in addition, company growth and development in order to strengthen Europe's industrial leadership are explicitly pursued with FTI support.

< EUR 3M

09 June 2020 27 October 2020

H2020 – Who can participate?

Open to all Member States, plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland.

Sometimes other countries involved, e.g. Israel, Turkey, etc.

Exact composition varies according to the call.

Many calls require a team of at least three partners.

The Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies.

The Fund will also support cross-cutting projects on innovative low-carbon solutions that lead to emission reductions in multiple sectors, for example through industrial symbiosis or business model innovation.

The Fund is also open to small-scale projects with total capital costs under €7.5 million which can benefit from simplified application and selection procedures.

Innovative low-carbon technologies and processes inenergy intensive industries

Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU)

Construction and operation of carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Innovative renewable energygeneration

Energy storage

Two phases:

Expression of interest, with a first assessment on the project effectiveness, innovation and maturity level. Projects that meet only the first two criteria may qualify for project development assistance.

Full application, where projects are assessed on all the criteria, including scalability and cost efficiency.

first call in 2020, followed by regular calls until 2030

Budget – up to EUR 10 billion

support up to 60% of the additional capital and operational costs linked to innovation

LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU.

LIFE funds innovative projects that demonstrate new techniques and methods. These ‘traditional’ style projects are complemented by ‘integrated’ projects that combine LIFE funding with other sources of support to maximise their impact over a large area.

For the 2014-2020 funding period, LIFE will contribute approximately EUR 3.4 billion to the protection of the environment and climate.

Environment and resource efficiency traditional projects

Deadline for submitting concept notes: 14 July 2020

2021 operating grants for NGOs will open in Spring 2021

Anyone registered in the EU can make a proposal for LIFE funding.

A call for proposals is published every year.

EMFF –Who can participate?

The EMFF is the fund for the EU's maritime and fisheries policies for 2014-2020.

It supports the implementation of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the EU Integrated Maritime Policy.

Budget - over EUR 6 billion for 2014-2020.

Applicants from all EU Member States are eligible to apply.

EMFF support can be provided through grants and, increasingly, through financial instruments.

Projects should:

Make the fisheries and aquaculture sectors more sustainable

Conserve the marine environment

Support growth and jobs in coastal communities.

EMFF –EMFF-APC-2020

EMFF-APC-2020 - Cross-sectoral development of innovative port clusters in the Atlantic: Developing a blue accelerator scheme for Atlantic ports

Budget – EUR 1 100 000 (1 will be funded)

Duration: 24 months

Deadline: 10 September 2020

Core activities (all)

Establishing a network between Atlantic ports

Defining the common challenges

Bringing together different stakeholders, including start-ups and SMEs

Designing measures to stimulate innovative businesses in the blue economy

Designing measures to support access to finance and funding sources

Preparing a business plan

Complementary activities (at least one)

Wider networking, awareness raising and dissemination activities.

Activities that will increase complementarity and synergies

Fundraising activities

EMFF –EMFF-MSP-2020 -Maritime Spatial Planning Projects

To support the establishment and implementation of Maritime Spatial Plans in line with the objectives pursued in the framework of the MSP Directive. More specifically, this action intends to support Member States in setting up maritime spatial plans and ensuring that plans are coherent and coordinated across marine regions concerned.

Deadline: 10 September 2020

EMFF-MSP-01-2020: Reserved for applicants from at least two coastal Member States bordering the targeted sea basins/marine regions, i.e. the North Sea and/or the Baltic Sea.

Budget – EUR 2 500 000 (at least 1 will be funded)

EMFF-MSP-02-2020: Reserved for applicants from at least one coastal Member State responsible for MSP in the concerned EU Outermost region(s).

Budget – EUR 1 500 000 (at least 1 will be funded)

INTERREG NSR –Who can participate?

The absolute minimum requirement for a project partnership at the full application stage is two partners in two different countries.

No currently open calls, but they are posted regularly

The expression of interest is the first stage of the application process and is submitted using a short form in the online monitoring system, to see whether a project proposal fits the programme and whether the planned partners, activities, budget and results seem realistic to deliver the idea.

The purpose of the expression of interest is to allow new and especially inexperienced beneficiaries to experiment with a project proposal without making a significant time and budget commitment.

If the programme’sSteering Committee approves the expression of interest, the project will be asked to develop and submit a full application. If this is approved, the project will receive a contract and can start work.

INTERREG Europe –Who can participate?

Through interregional cooperation projects, you and your partners must identify a common interest and then work together for 3-5 years.

Policy Learning Platforms is the second action of the Interreg Europe programme, established to open up the programme’s knowledge for the benefit of all the project partners and the whole community of regional policy stakeholders.

Policy Areas:

Research and innovation

SME competitiveness

Low-carbon economy

Environment and resource efficiency

No currently open calls, but they are posted regularly

Digital Europe- 2021-2027

Digital Europe, 2021-2027

Budget €8.2 billion

The focus areas are:

€2.4 billion for supercomputing

€2.2 billion for artificial intelligence

€1.8 billion for cybersecurity

€600 million for advanced digital skills

€1.2 billion for ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society

EUREKA –Network Projects

EUREKA Network Projects are transnational, market-driven innovative research and development projects, labelled by EUREKA and supported by the public. They aim to develop marketable products, services or processes. EUREKA Network Projects are bottom-up and cover all technological areas with a civilian purpose.

Open calls – all year.

The consortium must have at least two partners from two different EUREKA countries. Partners can be of any type: SMEs, large companies, research institutions and universities.

EUREKA –Network Projects

EUREKA Network Projects are transnational, market-driven innovative research and development projects, labelled by EUREKA and supported by the public. They aim to develop marketable products, services or processes. EUREKA Network Projects are bottom-up and cover all technological areas with a civilian purpose.

Open calls – all year.

The consortium must have at least two partners from two different EUREKA countries. Partners can be of any type: SMEs, large companies, research institutions and universities.

EUREKA –Eurostars

Eurostars aims to stimulate research-performing SMEs to lead international collaborative research and innovation projects by easing access to support and funding. It is fine-tuned to focus on the needs of SMEs, and specifically targets the development of new products, processes and services and the access to transnational and international markets.

Next deadline: 03 September 2020

R&D performing SME as main project partner

At least 50% of project budget

At least 2 different partners from 2 different Eurostars countries

Project must be completed within 36 months

Market introduction within 24 months of project completion

EUREKA Cluster –EUROGIA2020

A typical cluster project is: 2-14 participants

3-4 countries

Average duration 30 months

Average project cost EUR 1.5 - 15

The application process for a EUROGIA2020 project proposal is a two-stage submission and evaluation procedure.

Next submission deadline: September 2020 (Call 16)

EUROGIA2020 aims to support and promote transnational, low carbon energy technology projects

EUROGIA2020 covers the entire energy mix from all forms of primary energy sources (except nuclear), through transportation and distribution, all the way to efficiency in end-use whether industrial or for individual consumers. Call 16 funds green energy and decarbonizing technology.

BlueInvestFund –allocated to financial intermediaries

The maximum size of a single EIF’s investment is limited to EUR 50m, representing at least 7.5% and up to 50% of the aggregate commitments made to the financial intermediary

Target to invest into SMEs, established or operating in one or more EU Member States the lower of: (i) 2 times the amount drawn down from the relevant Blue Economy thematic allocation to the fund (ii) or two thirds of the aggregate amount drawn down by the applicant from its investors for the purpose of the investment.

Undertake to invest at least an amount equal to the amount drawn down for investments from EIF’s commitment in eligible final recipients, i.e. a SME established or operating in EU and: active in research, development or operations of the BE-related activities, or

exploiting marine environment data or information in order to research, develop or manufacture products and/or services, or

transferring non-BE sectors technologies and/or data to BE-related activities, or

otherwise pursuing digitalisation in BE technologies, products or services.

Except for co-investments, if the applicant is established (or is to be established) in the EU, its strategy should be to invest more than 50% of its invested amounts into SMEs established or operating in one or more EU Member States. Otherwise, its strategy should target for more than 75% of its invested amounts in SMEs, established or operating in one or more EU Member States.

JPI Oceans

Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) was established in 2011 as an intergovernmental platform, open to all EU Member States and Associated Countries who invest in marine and maritime research.

To initiate a JPI Oceans Joint Action, one or more member countries must take the lead and be supported by at least three other countries. The proposal is then discussed by the JPI Oceans Management Board and, if approved as JPI Oceans action, it is then defined in greater detail, also enabling other countries to join.

There are regular calls (none currently open) at http://jpi-oceans.eu/calls

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